And I stood my ground (respectfully, of course). As I mentioned to Mamie above, I did end up having a 3-hour conversation with my boss yesterday and, while I hardly think it will eliminate the issues and the unnecessary additional stress they create, it was air-clearing and helpful. He also needs to brush that huge lock of hair out of his eyes for pete's sake. I will admit that Prince Albert as characterized bugs me a bit - he's handsome and erudite but he's also arrogant (maybe he really was so).
>83 katiekrug: Katie, I think you would enjoy 'Victoria.' Jemma Coleman is excellent. If anybody responds I will set up a separate thread. I know that Spokane is a long way from Seattle, but perhaps you can make it over? Last time ALA was in Seattle there was just you, me, and Karen at the meetup but for the last couple of years Tim has been joining us. Usually, Saturday night works best for us to meet for food and book talking. I don't know if we will have a meetup - yet, but if there is positive response I will plan one.
If you are an LT user and live close enough to Seattle it might be worth your while to make plans to attend on Saturday or Sunday and pick up some of those free ARC's. Yeah LT!)Īt this point I don't know if LT will be able to give out free passes to the exhibit floor, but the LT people are checking on it. Tim Spaulding, intrepid founder and leader of LT, and Loreanne, the web services librarian for LT, will be there in the ProQuest booth, so you can stop in and meet them. Most of the major publishers will be there on the exhibit floor with plenty of Advanced Readers Copy's (ARC's) for people to pick up. I wanted to let everybody know that the American Library Association Winter Conference will be in Seattle, WA starting January 25 and ending on January 28. and Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hungerġ994: James Kelman, How late it was, how lateġ997: Arundhati Roy, The God of Small ThingsĢ000: Margaret Atwood, The Blind AssassinĢ001: Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly GangĢ004: Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty - I may pass on this one.Ģ006: Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of LossĢ010: Howard Jacobson, The Finkler QuestionĢ011: Julian Barnes, The Sense of an EndingĢ014: Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep NorthĢ015: Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven KillingsĢ017: George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael Kġ989: Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Dayġ992: Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient.
Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapurġ974: Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist and Stanley Middleton, Holidayġ975: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dustġ981: Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Childrenġ983: J. Farrell, Troubles (awarded in 2010 as the Lost Man Booker Prize)ġ973: J. Personal Reading Challenge: Every winner of the Booker Prize since its inception in 1969ġ969: P. Title contains a homophone word ~ Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Book in translation ~ Blessed are Those Who Thirst by Anne HoltĢ5. Short stories or essays ~ Well-Read Black Girl by Glory EdimĢ2. Weather (title contains a weather word, or book involves/centers around a weather event)ġ6.
Part of a series ~ Death in a Darkening Mist by Iona Whishawġ5. Children’s/YA book, or reread a childhood favoriteġ2. Animal on cover/in title/plays a significant roleġ0. Topic or character related to medicine/healthħ. Book mentioned in another book you have readĦ. Read a book bullet (meaning another LT member inspired you to read it)ĥ. Author uses middle name or middle initialĤ. I love nothing so much as a LibraryThing meet-up and I hope to manage at least a couple of them in 2019.ġ. I'm also participating in Kim's group read of These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore over the first four months of the year. I''ll dip into the American Authors Challenge now and then as well as the Nonfiction Challenge.
I'm participating in a few challenges this year: And, as Jim says in his description of this group, ".we care less about the numbers than we do about the exchange of book info and the community of readers." Yes. LT has expanded my reading horizons more than I could ever have imagined. I try to read widely but my go-to genres are literary fiction and mysteries. 2019 will be my 9th year as a member of the 75ers (this month is my 8th Thingaversary!) and it is my most beloved on-line community. I'm a runner and walker (around town or in the woods), collector of bookmarks, and lover of books. I love wine, milk chocolate, and ginger snaps. I'm a handful of years away from retirement and looking forward to it more than I had expected.
I've spent the last 25 years or so in the Pacific Northwest (U.S.). Greetings all! I'm Ellen, a university administrator living in Washington state with my partner Prudence (aka P) and my beloved elderly cat, Abby. Photograph by NITIN VAYAS, 2017 National Geographic